[Noisebridge-discuss] hashclash MD5 collisions, and ps3 for Noisebridge

[d p chang]

David Molnar <dmolnar at eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> d p chang wrote:
>>
>> i hadn't see the md5 one but i was definitely interested in the sha-1
>> result as we've a running argument at work about what to use to for
>> any new bits. the rate of 'weakening' is faster tahn i had thought.
>>   
> Use SHA-2 if you need to deploy today.

yeah, we ended up at sha-256 because it fit into the space we had 'free'
(non-contiguous and the original designers didn't think to have variably
sized bits).

\p
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